Thread: Concerns about Content Patch 2.1

Retaining rate is one of the best ever in the mmo world, so yeah, just play something else while waitin for the patch.

Originally Posted by Mekhana

What I can't understand is not releasing the critical changes that would greatly benefit gameplay currently such as the buff to warriors, dragoons and monks and the raise invulnerability.

It's because you can't understand that those four (taking into account they are doing a change in encounter design instead of simply number-changing on classes to fix the issue with melee) actually take far more work than you expect
Raise invulnerability and dragoon jump is a matter that is strictly tied to a base tenet of the engine, animations and mechanical effects are inheretly tied, the effects of attacks only happen during specific frames of animations. Thus to change things which depend on that, such as adding an invulnerability effect to Raise (which needs to be applied BEFORE the animation stars rather than when it ends, which is where every effect goes) and changing mobility on Jump requires changing how the basic animation system of the game works so you bet they need to drive the QA hammer hard on that. Also it's not like they can't shift encounter design with just a snap of the finger, changing enemy AI without further breaking it (look at all the issues with Twintania and enmity and vanished targets) requires a lot of effort.

The balance changes you are expecting are deeply dependant on base system changes, they HAVE to come on a big patch, sadly :/

Originally Posted by Skies

It's because you can't understand that those four (taking into account they are doing a change in encounter design instead of simply number-changing on classes to fix the issue with melee) actually take far more work than you expect
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You assume much about how a game engine works. You are also wrong on every point. Animations, effects, textures, damage modifiers; these are all things that game engines are designed to easily implement and remove. You clearly are just white knighting with nothing to go on here, but /thumbsup for trying.

Such a bunch of impatient gamers that still dont have their lesson learned toward MMOs.

Thats pretty cute.

Originally Posted by cotti

Interesting, you are doing the same on the other side. Please, (don't) elaborate further since you seem to be the developer of "the one game engine".

I have no clue on how you can be so sure that the absolutely same paradigms are being being applied verbatim in ARR's engine. ...Are you a Squeeny dev in a mundane account?

That surely means we can direct the complaints at you, eh?

Not doing the opposite, I've worked with several engines and being able to make changes like these is a pretty paramount necessity, especially for a game type that needs to have things added and be patched on a weekly basis (like an MMO.) If anything, it would be easier to make those changes in this game than any other type, but SE is holding out because they want 2.1 to be huge.

Question: why is everyone asuming 2.1 wont be till jan. Have i missed a dev post somewhere or are you all just pulling numbers out of the air?